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| Artificial Cornea Saves Eyesight
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| Every year, in Germany alone, around 7000 people wait for a new cornea to save their eyesight. But donor corneas are in short supply. In an EU project, researchers have developed an artificial cornea which is to be clinically tested in early 2008.
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October 9, 2007 |
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| Automatic Eyeglasses Prescriptions? New Formula Connects Optical Quality With Visual Acuity
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| For the first time, a study combines measurements of abnormalities in the eye with models for assessing how well an individual can see, meaning it may be possible to program a machine to automatically produce prescriptions for corrective lenses.
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May 18, 2008 |
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| Blood Vessel Protein Reverses Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Retinopathy In Mice
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| Two major eye diseases and leading causes of blindness--age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy--can be reversed or even prevented by drugs that activate a protein found in blood vessel cells, researchers at the University of Utah School of Medicine and several other institutions have announced in a new study.
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March 16, 2008 |
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| Cheap Designer Glasses
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| A select range of designer glasses, sunglasses and accessories at below high street prices.
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| Cheap Prescription Glasses Online - Reading Glasses.
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| Cheap prescription sunglasses online. Based in the UK and delivering Worldwide offering quality cheap prescription sunglasses from £15 and was founded to provide the customer with a cheaper alternative to the more expensive high street opticians.
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| Concerned About Lasik? There Are Other, Maybe Even Better, Options
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| Frightened by headlines about Lasik side effects? Lasik gets all the advertising, but there are half a dozen alternate eye surgeries — from a simpler laser approach to implantable lenses — that might solve your squint.
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April 28, 2008 |
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| Contact Lenses, Sunglasses, Eye Glasses, Eye Glass Frames, Arbuthnots Opticians Optometrist.
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| Contact Lenses, Sunglases, Eye Glases and frames from Arbuthnot Opticians and optometrists offering disposable and coloured contact lens, designer and sports sun glass, prescription and rimless eye glass, rimless and protective eye wear.
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| Diabetes Drug May Slow Eye Disease
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| The medication rosiglitazone may slow the progression of eye disease in diabetes patients, according to new research from the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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June 10, 2008 |
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| Discovery of gene responsible for binocular vision
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| In work that could lead to new treatments for sensory disorders in which people experience the strange phenomena of seeing better with one eye covered, MIT researchers report that they have identified the gene responsible for binocular vision.
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September 14, 2007 |
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| Discovery Of Retinal Cell Type Ends 40-year Search
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| A research team combining high-energy physicists from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and neuroscientists from the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., has discovered a type of retinal cell that may help monkeys, apes, and humans see motion.
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October 9, 2007 |
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| Down's Syndrome Children May Only Need BiFocals For Two Years, Study Suggests
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| Nearly one third of Down's syndrome children who wear bifocal lenses to help them focus accurately may only need to wear them for two years, according to new research from Cardiff University.
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May 1, 2008 |
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| Eat Your Leafy Vegetables To Decreased Your Risk Of Cataracts
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| Women who have higher dietary intake of lutein and zeaxanthin--compounds found in yellow or dark, leafy vegetables--as well as more vitamin E from food and supplements appear to have a lower risk for developing cataracts, according to a new article.
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January 17, 2008 |
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| Eating fewer refined carbohydrates may slow the progression AMD
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| AMD results in partial or total blindness in 7 to 15% of the elderly, according to the Eye Diseases Prevalence Research Group. "Dietary changes may be the most practical and cost-effective prevention method to combat progression of AMD," says Allen Taylor.
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October 9, 2007 |
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| Eating Fish And Foods With Omega-3 Fatty Acids Linked To Lower Risk Of Age-related Eye Disease
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| Eating fish and other foods high in omega-3 fatty acids is associated with reduced risk of the eye disease age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to a meta-analysis of nine previously published studies. However, the accumulated evidence includes few clinical trials and is insufficient to support the routine consumption of such foods for AMD prevention, the authors note.
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June 11, 2008 |
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| Eight Ways to Keep Your Eyes Healthy
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| Eyes are literally our windows to the world, but few people take the time to care for the body part that imparts the precious gift of sight. There are many easy ways to treat your eyes with the respect they deserve. Dr. Scott Greenstein, an ophthalmologist at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, offers these suggestions to keep your eyes healthy.
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February 6, 2008 |
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| Fast-Acting Carbs May Hasten Vision Loss Over Time
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| Consuming higher-than-average amounts of carbohydrates that cause blood sugar levels to spike and fall rapidly could be a risk factor for central vision loss with aging.
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December 1, 2007 |
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| FDA advisers: Clearer LASIK warnings needed
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| A panel of medical advisers -- mostly eye doctors wearing glasses -- listened to tales of woe and wonder Friday from people who sought to get rid of their specs through LASIK surgery.
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April 25, 2008 |
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| First animal model of age-related macular degeneration
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| Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have created the first animal model of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) caused by a mutation known to produce disease in people, an important first step in developing treatments.
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October 10, 2007 |
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| Gene Therapy Experiments Improve Vision in Nearly Blind
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| Scientists for the first time have used gene therapy to dramatically improve sight in people with a rare form of blindness, a development experts called a major advance for the experimental technique.
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April 28, 2008 |
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| Gene therapy restores vision in patients with rare congenital blindness
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| In a clinical trial at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, researchers from The University of Pennsylvania have used gene therapy to safely restore vision in three young adults with a rare form of congenital blindness.
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April 27, 2008 |
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| Handy Tech Consulting
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| markets Handy Tech Elektronik Braille displays, services, and other products for the blind in North America.
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| A Stye Near the Eye.
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| Check Your Eyeglasses.
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| Double Vision Has Many Causes.
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| Finding an Eye Doctor.
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| If Your Eyes Are Dry.
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| Using Contact Lenses.
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| Health Tip: Wear Sunglasses to Protect Your Eyes
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| How to choose the safest shades.
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| Hormone Use Related To Lower Risk Of Macular Degeneration In Postmenopausal Women
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| Women who take postmenopausal hormones appear to have a lower risk of developing advanced stages of the eye disease age-related macular degeneration, especially if they had also taken oral contraceptives in the past, according to a new report.
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April 17, 2008 |
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| Lazy Eye Treatment Shows Promise In Adults
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| New evidence from a laboratory study and a pilot clinical trial confirms the promise of a simple treatment for amblyopia, or "lazy eye," according to researchers from the U.S. and China. The treatment was effective on 20-year-old subjects. Amblyopia was considered mostly irreversible after age eight.
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March 4, 2008 |
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| MicroRNAs Appear Essential For Retinal Health
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| Retinas in newborn mice appear perfectly fine without any help from tiny bits of genetic material called microRNAs except for one thing — the retinas do not work.
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May 8, 2008 |
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| NASA Approves LASIK for Astronauts
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| After five decades of requiring naturally perfect eyesight in its astronauts, NASA finally approved one of the most common opthalmologic procedures, an Advanced CustomVue™ LASIK with the IntraLase® Method, from Advanced Medical Optics, Inc., according to the company's press release.
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September 21, 2007 |
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| New Contact Lenses, Old Infection Risk
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| Corneal Infections Not More Common With 30-Day Silicone Hydrogel Contact Lenses.
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Dec. 6, 2005 |
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| New Cataract Gene Discovered
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| The international team of researchers was able to identify the location and defect in the coding region of the gene through analysis of genetic material (DNA) from members of a large Swiss family, the majority of whom suffered from autosomal dominant juvenile cataract. The corresponding protein belongs to a family of monocarboxylate transporters which move small molecules across cell mem-branes.
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February 18, 2008 |
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| New Device Saves Vision Before Glaucoma Hits
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| Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have developed a high-resolution imaging tool that can identify patients at risk for glaucoma decades before the disease claims their eyesight.
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July 6, 2008 |
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| New Drug Reduces One Cause Of Vision Loss
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| In the industrialized world, most diseases that cause vision loss do so by altering the permeability of the blood vessels in the retina of the eye such that fluid accumulates in the retina impairing eyesight.
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May 19, 2008 |
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| New findings on visual perception
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| International research co-led by professor Alejandro Maiche, of the Department of Basic, Evolutionary and Educational Psychology at the UAB, has put forward the hypothesis that the brain responds to the possibility that two objects might collide, in a different way to how it would react to two objects in movement with divergent trajectories.
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September 14, 2007 |
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| New Glaucoma Procedure Aims To Prevent Further Eye Damage
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| For the first time in Florida, patients with glaucoma have a new treatment option known as the Trabectome. The minimally invasive procedure, which is available at Mayo Clinic and takes about 20 minutes, is designed to decrease pressure within the eye and stabilize the vision.
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June 26, 2008 |
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| New Treatment For Age-related Macular Degeneration Within Sight
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| With 8 million people at high risk for advanced age-related macular degeneration, researchers from Harvard and Japan discovered that the experimental drug, endostatin, may be the cure.
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November 30, 2007 |
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| Opening new portals for the blind
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| Pulse Smartpen, WebAnywhere among affordable new technologies.
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July 14, 2008 |
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| Optician Newcastle
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| Our Optometrists carry out a huge array of checks during to your eye examination. These can include testing your eye pressure (to detect glaucoma - which, if undetected, could lead to blindness), checking sideways field of vision and the health of the back of your eye.
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| Pfizer bankrolls a stem cell start-up
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| Pfizer is bankrolling a biotech start-up that will concentrate on developing new stem cell therapies for eye disease. Scripps Research Institute's Martin Friedlander has undertaken animal studies that identified bone and blood-marrow stem cells that could repair damaged blood vessels in the eye.
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June 24, 2008 |
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| Populations Of Brain Cells Adapt To Changing Images
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| Neuroscientists studying the mind's ability to process images have completed the first empirical study to demonstrate, using animal models, how populations of nerve cells in visual cortex adapt to changing images. Their findings could lead to sight-improving therapies for people following trauma or stroke.
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March 17, 2008 |
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| Promising Early Evidence Of The Superior Benefits Of Drug Therapy For Diabetic Eye Disease
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| A JDRF collaboration between Johns Hopkins researchers and Genentech has shown that a drug for the treatment of diabetic eye disease has performed better in clinical trials than the current standard treatment using laser surgery.
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April 30, 2008 |
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| Race May Affect Macular Degeneration
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| Study Shows Older Whites More Likely Than African-Americans to Develop Age-Related Macular Degeneration.
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February 11, 2008 |
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| Can't read the fine print?
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| Renowned Japanese Corneal Researcher to Confirm NanoViricides Ekc-Cide Animal Study Results
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| NanoViricides, Inc., said that an internationally renowned Japanese ophthalmologist and corneal researcher, Kazuo Tsubota, MD, PhD, has agreed to perform confirmatory animal efficacy studies of the nanoviricide anti-EKC drug candidate, EKC-Cide(TM), against EKC (epidemic kerato-conjunctivitis) in Japan. Dr. Tsubota is currently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan.
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July 1, 2008 |
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| Research targets diabetes-related eye conditions
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| New research projects commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research's Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) programme will evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of different screening tests used in diabetic eye care.
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May 15, 2008 |
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| Researchers Develop Bionic Contact Lens
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| If you've ever wanted to be the Bionic Woman or a Terminator, new research may at least let you see with their eyes.
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January 18, 2008 |
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| Researchers find crucial signal that switches on eye development
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| Researchers at the University of Warwick, funded by Wellcome Trust, have uncovered a crucial signal that switches on eye development.
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October 25, 2007 |
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| Shape Encoding May Start In The Retina
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| New evidence from the University of Southern California suggests that there may be dedicated cells in the retina that help compile small bits of information in order to recognize objects. The research was conducted by Ernest Greene, professor of psychology in the area of brain and cognitive sciences at USC.
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September 16, 2007 |
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| Stem Cell Treatment Credited for Giving Boy, 2, His Sight Back
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| Florida mother is amazed her son is gaining his vision back.
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June 5, 2008 |
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| Vision loss tied to suicide, study finds
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| When paired with poor general health, risk of taking own life increases.
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July 14, 2008 |
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| Vitamins Help Prevent Vision Loss From AMD -- If Used Correctly
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| A study of individuals with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), based at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, found that nearly 40 percent of those likely to benefit from specific vitamin/mineral supplements were either not taking the supplements or not using the recommended dosage.
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June 6, 2008 |
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| Who Is Likely To Get Dry Eye Syndrome After LASIK Surgery?
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| Scientists at Schepens Eye Research Institute have found that people with a certain low level of tear production are more likely to develop chronic dry eye syndrome after LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis), laser refractive surgery to correct near- and far-sightedness than those with more plentiful tears.
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March 6, 2008 |
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| Why Does The World Appear Stable While Our Eyes Move?
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| Whenever we shift our gaze, attention is directed to a new target. This shift in attention causes a brief compression of visual space, according to a new study.
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February 18, 2008 |
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| Zinc Linked To Macular Degeneration
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| In studying eye tissue samples, the researches found that deposits, that are hallmarks of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), contain large amounts of zinc.
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August 28, 2007 |
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